I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

Dissent. I am socially liberal but fiscally conservative. I want to reduce the overall size of government with a negative income tax, I want to end subsidies to banks, Pharma, Big Ag, and I want to tax the carried interest as wages, which is what it is.

I want to take those savings and nationalize health care, improve education by giving block grants to schools in areas that have smaller tax revenue bases than the country at large, increase both community policing and parks and recreation facilities and outreach in neighborhoods, again through block grants.

I want to be fiscally conservative by making administration of the block grants subject to oversight boards made up of educators, law enforcement, and, most importantly, citizens.

I want to be socially liberal by federal legislation making sexual and gender orientation protected classes. I want to strengthen and expand the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and I want to promote stronger communities by using scattered site housing for Section 8 and other public housing.

I also recognize I am dreaming. But I am socially liberal and fiscally conservative.

I just want my taxes lower and my employees have the health care we used to have.